Pages

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Remembering in June

This is the third in a new series recording events by month in the lives of my Danson and Rawcliffe ancestors of the Fylde, Lancashire.

1 June 1847Anne Rawcliffe was born, first of eight daugters of Robert Rawcliffe & Jane Carr, named after her paternal grandmother and sister to my great grandmother Maria. Anne married gamekkeeper Robert Roskell and named one of her three daughters Maria. She ws buried in St. Anne's Church, Singleton near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lacnashire.

4 June 1926Jane Riley, nee Rawcliffe died. She was the second daughter of Robert and Jane Rawcliffe (above) and sister to Anne and Maria (above) . This photograph came from an internet contact descendant.

Jane Riley, nee Rawcliffe with her son George (left)grandson (Jack) and Jack's baby son George Robert who did not survive infancy.

No comments:

Post a Comment

About Me

I have been interested in family history for years. It all began when I was allowed as a child to look through the old family photographs and memorabilia kept in a shoebox in the cupboard at my grandfather's house. That treat started me on a fascinating ancestral trail.